Williamson denies rumours
courtesy of StarAfrica.com
Triumphant Kenya’s Gor Mahia coach Bobby Williamson has denied rumours circulating in Kenya that he s heading to Tanzania to link up with soccer giants Simba Sports club.
Answering questions from Kenya journalists during a luncheon hosted to the club players after being crowned Kenya premier League (KPL) Champions at a Nairobi Hotel, Williamson said he was comfortable with the Kenya glamour club.
The former Uganda Cranes coach said he has not even reached halfway to his one year contract adding that those issuing such rumours were not genuine friends of the club.
During the luncheon hosted by a club diehard supporter Gor Semalango, the Scottish lauded the entire Gor Mahia fraternity for bestowing him with confidence to guide the club.
“This was a combined effort and I cant claim all the credit for winning the grueling KPL title. I received all the necessary support from the club management led by Chairman Ambrose Rachier to the last man standing behind the team.It was just marvelous”he observed.
Kidero to upgrade City Stadium
Nairobi governor Evans Kidero announced plans to upgrade City Stadium. According to michezoafrika.com. Kidero says that his office has already acquired a strategic partner who is working towards upgrading the City Stadium with immediate effect. This came after the club players and officials who were paying Kidero a visit at City hall requested that Kidero upgrade the stadium which hosts most of Gor Mahia’s home games.
In most cases, there are simply not enough seats for the throngs that attend Kogalo home matches. So most late arrivers have to watch the match standing. In 2010, the RFUEA grounds at Ngong road acquired sponsorship from Safaricom to construct terraces at the grounds which added 1500 to the sitting capacity. City stadium should be able to add at least 5000 seats. The last time city stadium received a major upgrade was in the late 1980s when the main stand was constructed.
The club also requested that Kidero reduce the training fee charged by the Stadium. “We requested him to also help us raise funds ahead of the forthcoming expensive CAF Champions League and he agreed. The Governor further assured that his office will look into the issue of training fee and we will be sending an official letter in that regard.” according to michezoafrika.com. Here again is one area where with some long term planning, the club could save money in the future by getting its own training ground.
Why is the team over celebrating while we still have two games. We have a crucial game against AFC Leopards and what we are seeing will distract the team from winning GoTV Cup.
Why can the office and technical bench pull the team out of these celebration and postpone them after the final game against AFC Leopard.
On continental game, our current team is still weak. We have to cover all weak areas within the team. We need at least two or three strikers, two midfielders and two defenders.
incompitent office,instade of asking 4r buldozer 2evacuate squoters n GM land so that we can plan 4r our training ground ua looking 4r ashort term.
If iwere there icould hv gone 4nothing short than that surely ihv bn sayn this every time n again Afraha like studiam is less than 10m or which any bank can give.
Plse EC work on that iwl give u free consultation it worked in Awendo green studiam more recently Monetary studies playing surface is the best in East Afrika n its worth 429000kshs.bring on the land n branches will constract perimater wall n many more.
I also question y all the partying when the equally important Gortv cup is still @ stake. The TB & players must now refocuss as the final is against AFC making a win all the more important.
If its Kidero upgrading Tokowanda then they shld make it a 20k seater. I don’t buy this nonsense that only 3-5k fans attend home games. EC stamp out hooliganism & corruption & attendance will sky rocket.
As 4 BW let EC start decide his contract in April13 by then he will have bin guaged with his “OWN” team
I agree. The celebrations are going overboard. We have two crucial matches and the only favourable result in spite of all the achievements so far is a win in both. The idea of holding a party in Nakuru after the Ulinzi match is as crazy as it is unwise. Let the celebration be measured and within acceptable limits. Even the 1987 success was not overdone as is the case here.
what is all the hullabaloo all about?they have earned it….let them celebrate and prepare for the upcoming matches in equal measure!!
Its like telling someone not to celebrate passing class 8 because form 4 is in the horizon…never mind the time span.Am certain the powers that be at Gor are taking care of both!!!
Celebrations Gone Overboard
These celebrations should be stopped until we play the two crucial matches. What is wrong with the office?
Our opponent teams are too busy with daily training while Gor Mahia are too busy with uncalled for celebrations.
Appeal
Chairman, we sincerely appeal to you to stop these over celebrations until the two matches are played. Can your office have some sense? Players are being hosted in all corners while the two games in hand are yet to be played. Why can’t this office see some sense?
Winning GoTV
Let us resume celebration after winning GoTV Cup. Otherwise I do not see Gor Mahia winning the GoTV trophy with these uncalled for celebrations.
Hard Questions
Admin, can we get the answers to the following questions:-
1. What time do the players train?
2. What diet are our players subjected to?
3. What lifestyle do our players lead?
4. Why are players being paraded while we still have crucial games?
Word of Wisdom
Let us stop this and concentrate in the the remaining two games. We need sanity to prevail in the team.
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Mwakio…i have no apologies to make to you….or anyone else.Even a 2 year old would be able to decipher what i meant in my article!!!!re read it or ask someone to help you out!!!!
To those in support of the celebrations, please use a microscope if need be to scan the effects of the celebrations. Read @Mwakio in post 6 and you will understand our fears. Did you see the effect of the celebrations against KCB at Kasarani?
Gor Mahia playing unit is composed of youth to whom celebrations imply two ingredients: alcohol/cigarettes and women (sex). I have contributed well-founded articles in this blogpost on how those two factors don’t augur well with performance in any sport. What about the food they eat in those luncheons? Is it the recommended diet for a professional footballer who still has competitive matches ahead? Competitive sport needs 100% presence of mind…What are the celebrations doing to the players’ focus?
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@oswozo moziek, look at your comments. No-one is against celebrations.
My friend, such kind of short sighted mentality will neither take you as oswozo moziek nor Gor Mahia anywhere.
Wisdom is better than ruby. Have just little wisdom and you will succeed.
Administrators of this blog post, may I know why you have censored my added comment on this debate on celebrations?
Whenever european teams win their domestic leagues they celebrate only for a nyt and press on with the FAs and champion’s league tittles then come to celebrate when it is all done.Why don’t we learn from them,shut our loins until we get the GOtv cup?Rachier,dichuo ok celebrate ni chiege muoch kayo,orito dhako nyuol ma biero wuogi.
Yes…Celebrations Gone Overboard!
I am a Gor fan kwa damu….but by the way things are going i’ve concluded we cannot win another game this season!
I predict a draw against Ulinzi…and a loss against AFC!
Choices have concequences!
Why do we suppose that the team is just celebrating and not training? Did we go to the training ground and found them missing? I saw them training yesterday and the day before at the City stadium. As far as I know the team trains in the morning just like almost all teams in the TPL and then have the afternoon off. If they decide to visit the Governor or are hosted for dinner at some hotel does that mean they are not training? Are we now assuming that BW is also partying and has forgotten the significance of these two matches? Nothing could be further from the truth. What is happening is that there is too much of Gor in the media to give the impression that there is no more football going on. Maybe the problem is that we won the league too early. I can bet that the team will deliver in the GoTv cup and the saturday game
Football needs alot of mental strength and the kind of celebration that is ongoing will affect the players whether we like it or not.
Against KCB it was very evident that players were preoccuipyed with celebration which affected their concentration and this could be replicated in our upcoming matches.
Infact am very much apprehensive on our upcoming matches especially against ingwe.
The coach must demand for uninterrupted time to have his players prepare well for the two fixtures.
Otherwise i wish the team well.
I agree with Oswozo and Dan original.In my humble opinion,i believe the team is professional enough to know what is expected of them.
They have won the league for crying out loud…its expected therefore that they will hog the limelight and all the news and attention will be focused on them,whats wrong with that??!!if the team is training,whats the biiiig deal???????
Bloggers on this wonderful site never cease to amuse me. We are permanently looking for mistakes, blaming this or that, sulking from dawn to dusk. Surely what is wrong in celebrating a hard earned victory? What is wrong in paying a courtesy call to Governor who by the way has contributed immensely to the club? Who told you that the team is not preparing for the two critical games? To the best of my knowledge, the team does not train 8 hours a day. Probably they do 2 to 3 hours in the morning and the same in the evening. If they take 2 hour break to visit Kidero as a way of relaxing, does it amount to over celebration. Honestly I don’t think so. Some of us are seriously suffering from “Know-it-all syndrome”.
For God and my beloved club – Kogallo.
@Dan, that they are training is not in doubt. What we are worried about is their mental strength as they approach these crucial matches. Our fears are founded on the outcome of last Sunday’s match. With the partying, where lies their focus? Our fears are founded on the meals they take in those luncheons; are their nutritional content as per what is recommended for a professional footballer who is yet to go on a break or do they have ingredients that would compromise performance? Our fears are founded on the fact that most players in our outfit are youth to whom partying and celebrations mean nothing unless there is alcohol/cigarettes and women (conjugal matters) to cap it all…and these certainly impact negatively on any athlete’s performance.
@ Barefoot Bandit….yours are words of wisdom..and i agree with you 100%
I know several of these players personally..i normally meet them…am a worried man!They are party people..and now that there are free things coming their way…wacha tuone.
@Barefoot Bandit, Alego tat yien and Pundit congrats..there are bloggers who are not seeing nor understanding what we meant here.
We are not against celebrations however the timing is not right as we still have critical games. Such celebrations should be shelved until we finish with AFC Leopards and Ulinzi.
Am still asking where is the wisdom for these uncoordinated celebrations? We can all celebrate but our house must be kept clean and must be orderly. We are not against Gor Mahia visiting Gov Evans Kidero, Semelango, RAO, President Uhuru Kenyatta, William Ruto etc but timing is critical.
We are talking about mental strength, nutrition, physical strength etc that is required to produce positive results.
If you think the players are over-celebrating then we are yet to see/hear more. Today the team will grace parliament for special mention (courtesy Futaa.com). To me let the boys get the recognition as this will attract even more players eyeing the team. What if we win the remaining matches , including the DEC 14th DSTv cup against Tusker. What will the pundits say. Fortunately I think like @Kosero who believes the players are also human and need to celebrate some triumphs. Next time they will be at Churchil Live , then Cheche and I don’t know where else. I believe the players are professional and know what to do when,
Mwakio, you have made most sense in this exchange. Mr Oswozo, ati Oswozo what a name? My friend you are making the least sense here. Celebrations are all good but it is clear if it continues this way, as someone has said hereabove, we may never win any other match this season, against Ulinzi or Efusi;this cannot be good for a champion. And God forbid, this is going in to the players’ heads and it might continue into the next season. We have had it,the players have had it, they have seen and have been seen by whoever wanted to see them,today they are in Parliament, I do not know where they will be tomorrow. Lets not overdo it please. I like Mwakio for this.
Please fellow bloggers let the players celebrate, it is unfortunate that the rest of us lost our celebrative mood after the loss to KCB on Sunday, but let us celebrate. Yes we have two crucial games to go but that should not stop us from celebration. The problem with us is human problem, we long for something so much and as soon as we get it, we forget that we ever wanted it.
Gor is not Ulinzi or Tusker that would be hosted for a dinner with their bosses once and everything done. Gor is a Community club and it is good for football to see the boys being honored, thats why players love being at Gor despite the pressure.
The bible says, rejoice, again I say rejoice because the Lord has been good to us. Let us rejoice and be glad. There is time for everything, this is the time to celebrate the trophy because the boys were so good that they got the trophy before the end of the season. They dont have to wait for Ulinzi game to celebrate because they won the league early.
Cecafa is coming and so there will be very little time to have the players together after the season ends. my hope is that the team should re group very early this year to begin preparations for next year’s assignments. Let Gor fans take players for lunch. I bet our Bobby is on top of things and even if we were to loose the remaining games, would we blame that on celebrations? What happened over the past 18years?
Congratulation to Gor Mahia, Let us rejoice and be glad, this is our time.
More invites for the team see below:-
Standard Media Group hosts 2013 KPL champions- Gor Mahia
Updated Thursday, November 7th 2013 at 15:45 GMT +3
By Tony Anelka
NAIROBI, KENYA: Standard Media Group hosted 2013 Kenyan Premier League champions – Gor Mahia on Thursday mid-morning at The Standard headquarters â?? Mombasa road.
Treated to what can be termed as â??English breakfastâ??, the entire team plus the technical bench enjoyed their short stay at The Standard premises just after their early morning training session at City stadium.
Receiving the champions, The Standard and Game Yetu editor Robin Toskin said it was a pleasure to have the team for photo session.
â??They are champions and indeed itâ??s a great pleasure to invite them for even a glass of water because at a time like this, everyone would love to have a moment with them,â? said Toskin.
â??Besides, it gives them a chance to have souvenir photos for their albums,â? he added.
Standard Group is known for its commitment to develop Kenyan Premier League and local sports in general through its unrivalled coverage.
Gor Mahia players left The Standard premises for Parliament building where Homabay County Hon Gladys Wanga booked an appointment for the National Assembly Speaker to receive the Champions in his office for honourable lunch. The team have since been invited to the Tusker project fame show, hosted by Nairobi governor Evans Kidero, visited by former prime minister Raila Odinga, entertained at Hotel Intercontinental by Gor Semelango and treated to a luncheon by Kisumu Central members of parliament at Lavington.
Machakos County governor Dr Alfred Mutua is also to host the 13-time KPL champions on a date yet to be confirmed.
Game Yetu understands Gor Mahia could be hosted at the State House and Tuzo soon. Other than the trophy and the prize money they won, those are the benefits that come with being a champion and more are expected.
The Standard and Game Yetu congratulates Gor Mahia FC for emerging KPL 2013 champions.
At the same time its difficult to play with as much passion after clinching the trophy. Maybe the Tech bench should consider playing those who have not had much playing time in the season and others who need to sharpen their claws in the Ulinzi match while we wait for the Ingwe game. This will enable us watch a good match, trully its boring to watch a match with very little or nothing at stake.
I think the team being hosted at various high places should ring a bell in our brains as GM fans and to the hooligans as to how this team is treasured by many.
What if the EC organizes a dinner, i mean a dinner for the fans paying something like 1500-2000/- as a part of the celebration at a venue somewhere, i think it would contribute something towards the 100 million they need for next year in addition to giving the fans a time to have meaningful interaction with the EC, players and the Tech Bench.Just thinking.
Let the celebrations continue.
I am always a supporter of working for money and good money for that matter. Let well wishers reward the boys. They need to honour the invite in Machakos and Mombasa as well.
We have read too many stories of players who won in ’87’ and other years and got nothing. Let the boys enjoy their rewards. If we stop the luncheons and dinners, we will continue reading the stories of regrets with championships.